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by teaming up with textile house Dedar to conjure a futuristic home-office-inspired Studio. There were transatlantic alliances too: New York/London-based Michaelis Boyd created a quietly luxurious Primary Bathroom with House of Rohl and acclaimed British interior design firm Veere Grenney Associates paired with the iconic American design house Schumacher. The Courtyard Bedroom that resulted was a place of handsome restraint and extraordinary skill. The talent on display at WOW!house 2024 was


breathtaking. This was a temporary house, decorated in five days to last for just five weeks, but from the inside it felt like a real – if fantastically appointed – home. This was partly thanks to the involvement of three studios with architectural expertise. Guy Goodfellow installed a colonnade that made visitors believe they were entering the Tissus d'Hélène Drawing Room through a winter garden. Rising star Anahita Rigby fused Georgian proportions with Japanese-inspired


LEFT: Designers had just five days to finish their rooms, with many bringing in specialist artisans, including mural artist Claire Basler, who created this freeform painting in the House of Rohl Bathroom by Michaelis Boyd BELOW: Ken Fulk’s Dining Room for The Rug Company was full of personal references and hidden meanings OPPOSITE: WOW!house 2024 was an international affair, with global brands and designers joining home-grown talent, which in turn attracted attention from across the world


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